Card-holder for freight-cars.



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHONSO M. GOODW'IN, OF SACO, MAINE.

CARD-HOLDER FOR FREIGHT-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,672, dated July 1'7, 1900.

Application filed March 22, 1900. Serial No. 9,648. m m el) To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSO H. Goonwnv, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saco, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card-Holders for Freight-Oars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention. such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in card-holders for freight-cars. Its object is to Provide a card-holder in which cards of various sizes may be readily inserted and removed, which shall afford the greatest amount of protection to the card consistent with the purposes for which the card is used, and which shall be cheap, durable, and readily attached to and removed from the car.

In the drawings herewith accompanying and making a part of this application, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved card-holder. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on line X X, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line Y Y.

Same letters of reference refer to like parts.

Myim proved card-holder consists of a metal frame having a base or bottom A and edges turned up, forming side walls B and top and bottom walls 0 and D, respectively. The top and bottom walls may incline slightly downwardly, as seen in Fig. 2, so as to shed water and prevent the destruction of the card. The card-holder has a sufficient number of countersunk openings in the bottom, through which the attaching-screws enter the walls of the car, as seen in Fig. 2. In countersiuking a part A of the base is upset beyond the plane of the bottom and serves to support the bottom of the receiver away from the car, thus allowing the water to run down the wall of the car between the card-holder and the wall of the car. The heads of the attachingscrews E are thereby countersunk and aiford no obstruction to the free entrance of the card between the lattice-work and the bottom of the holder.

A portion of the holder is covered by an open lattice-Work, consisting of horizontal bars F, which extend through and are supported in the side walls, as seen at G, and

just sufficiently raised above the bottom of the holder to permit the insertion of one or more cards. A series of vertical barsH have on one end a rounded loop I, through which the upper horizontal bar passes, which horizontal bar supports the ends of the vertical bars. The opposite ends of the vertical bars pass through the bottom wall of the holder and are supported thereby, the lattice-work being below the plane of the outer walls of the holder. The mesh of the lattice-work thus formed should be snfliciently fine to prevent cards of small size from being accidentallydisplaced. The rounded loops of the vertical bars serve to guide the entrance of the cards within the space between the bottom of the holder and the lattice-work. A portion of the top wall and the bottom of the holder may be removed, as seen at J, to afford easy acce s to the edge of the card for the purpose of removal.

The ad vantages of my improved holder are that it obviates the defacement and destruction of the car by tacks, which are usually employed to tack the cards to the wall of the car, it obviates the necessity of the employee carrying a hammer and tacks, saves time in attaching and removing the cards, and protects the cards from accidental destruction or displacement.

Having thus described my invention and its use, I claim- 1. In a card-holder for freight-cars, a suitable base having turned-up side, top and bot-- tom walls, a lattice-work supported by said side and bottom walls, said lattice-work being open at the top for the insertion of the card and a portion of the top wall cut away to facilitate the removal of the card.

2. In a card-holder for freight-cars, a suitable base, top, bottom and side walls and a lattice-work supported by the side and bottorn walls above the base and below the plane of the edges of said walls.

3. In a card-holder for freight-cars, a suitable base having turned-up top, bottom and side walls, a lattice-Work supported in the side and bottom walls, countersunk screwholes forming supports for the holder against the wall of the car and adapted to receive the attaching-screws, the heads of the screws resting in said countersunk openings and being below the surface of the back of the holder.

4. Ina card-holder for freight-ears, a suitable base, turned-up top, bottom and side walls, the top and bottom Walls being inclined outwardly and downwardly and a latticework supported in the side and bottom walls only, thereby leaving an open space at the top between the lattice-work and back of the holder forthe insertion of the card.

5. In a card-holder for freight-oars, a suitable base having top, bottom and side walls and a lattice-Work consisting of vertical bars having one end supported in the bottom wall and loops in the other end and transverse I 5 bars supported at each end in the side walls, one of said transverse bars passing through the loops in the Vertical bars.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 16th day of 20 March, 1900.

ALPHONSO M. GOODWIN; WVitnesses:

PHILIP O. TAPLEY, H. FAIRFIELD. 

